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Jamboree '83
Published in Lucknow, Ontario, Wednesday, June 1, 1983
Bernadine Kinney of Kingabride celebrated her 80th birthday on May 24 and relatives,
friends and neighbours held an open house at the Kingsbridge Parish Hall hi her honour on
Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Kinney, who is an active member of the community, received bit
wishes from representatives of various organizations she has worked with since her
retirement to the Community. John Austin, reeve of Ashfield Township, presented a scroll
bringing greetings from Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. tSentlnel Staff Photo]
Set Ashfield budget
A property in Ashfield Township with an
assessment of $5,000.00 will be paying
$95.45 more in property taxes this year
following the setting of the 1983 budget of
$1,541,039.00, at the May meeting.
A summary of the proposed mill rates for
1983 show general township rates to be
51.000 for farm and residential and 60.000
for commercial and business. This is up from
48.04 for farm and residential and 56.52 for
commercial and business in 1982.
Road construction
set for August
Reconstruction of Bruce County Road 1, at
the north limits of the village of Lucknow,
has been delayed by the wet weather and the
project has been deferred until August.
County engineer Eldon Yundt told Bruce
County Council May 17, a road crew tried to
start the work the week of May 9 - 13, but it
was simply too wet,
The new culvert has been installed on
Ross Street, Lucknow, County road crews
completed this project last week. The
construction crew is presently working on
Bruce County Road 7. south of Ripley and
Yundt anticipates this work to be completed
before the summer vacation shut down at the
end of July.
Identifies picture
Bernadean Ritchie of Lucknow correctly
identified the picture of Diane Hackett in last
week's Sentinel at three minutes past 9 on
Wednesday morning. She wins a voucher to
he used at the Superscoop ice Cream
Parlour. courtesy of the Lucknow Sentinel.
Several readers phoned to identify the
member of the Lucknow Pipe Band, but Dr.
R. B. Treleaven was the first to correctly
identify Watt Webster of Clinton who will
plan with the hand, when they reunite for the
Jamboree '83 parade during the Jamboree
festivities.
The county levy is 37.910 for farm and
residential and 44.600 for commercial and
business up from 33.97 farm and residential
and 39.97 commercial and business in 1982,
The elementary public school rate is
72,944 farm and residential and 85.816
commercial and business up from 64.11 and
75.43 respectively in 1982. The separate
school rates are 71.850 farm and residential,
up from 63.50 in 1982. Secondary rates are
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Bernadine Kinney is 80
Bernadine Kinney and comedian Bob
Hope are sharing something in common
these days. Both have just celebrated their
80th birthdays with all the accompanying
publicity. And both are as active and
vivacious as many 20 years younger.
Members of the Kingsbridge Parish held
an open house on Sunday when relatives,
friends and neighbours gathered to wish
"Bern", as they fondly call her a Happy
Birthday.
She says she never thought of herself
being an octogenarian. But now that she has
celebrated her 80th birthday she finds it is
good,
Mrs. Kinney retired to Kingsbridge
community 10 years ago having been a
summer resident since she and her husband
purchased a house there in 1946. For
someone who planned to write and research
her genealogy during her retirement, she
has been actively involved in her community
and has met many people through her
association with various organizations who
are proud to call 'her friend,
She worked to preserve the Huron Historic
Gaol because her grandfather was Jailer
Griffin, the first jailer in the Canadian penal
system to permit the prisoners to leave the
jail during their confinement. She remains a
member of the Gaol Board. She joined the
Huron Historical Society and the Godericl,
Genealogical Society because of her interest
in family roots. She is a descendant of
Morgan King, one of the original nine
settlers in the Kingsbridge community and
for whom the community is named.
She is also president of the Kingsbridge
Genealogy Society which was started by her
brother, Father Ralph O'Loughlin at a
meeting in her home in 1967. This Society
held a Kingsbridge Reunion in 1970.
The interest in family genealogy, she and
her brother share, was stimulated by their
mother who wrote the "History of St.
Joseph's Parish in 1936. ,,
She received the Catholic Women's
League Maple Leaf Award for her contri-
bution to the community and the league last
December, She was instrumental in the
initiation of the Garvey Public Speaking
Awards at the Kingsbridge Community
School. She was also active in the creation of
a senior citizens club in the community.
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Set aside funds for capital project
By Henry Hess
Aided by a sparkling financial perform-
ance during the past year, the Wingham and
District Hospital has been able to set aside a
significant sum of money for future capital
spending, including the planned $1.4
million expansion of emergency, outpatient
and x-ray departments.
The financial statement to be presented at
the annual meeting of the hospital associa-
tion June 16 will recommend appropriating
for capital projects some $645,000 in
donations and interest income which has
accumulated over the past 24 years.
The statement will also show a surplus on
operations of $155,000 for 1982-83, offset -
Wins trip to Geneva
Susan Meyer of Holyrood has won a trip to
Geneva, Switzerland as one of three winners
in a nationwide telecommunications poster
contest.
Susan, a grade nine student at F. E.
Madill Secondary in Wingham, received a
telegram from federal communications min-
ister Francis Fox May 20. informing her that
as a winner she will attend Telecom '83 in
Geneva in October. Her poster will form part
of the worldwide photo and drawing compe-
tition, Telecom '83, held every four years to
puhliciie the role of telecommunications in
the world today. This is the fourth contest,
open to 155 different countries, with Canada
taking part for the first time. She also
receives a $500 savings bond.
At present Susan's poster is on display at
the Salon des Sciences et Technologies in
Montreal. It was one of several entries from
Madill which swept the medals at the Huron
Wins lottery
Matthew and Sarah Hunter of Toronto are
the u inners of the Jamboree lottery draw
held May 25. The lucky ticket #20.3 was
drawn by Bob McIntosh of the Jamboree '83
eommitte:.
County Science Fair in Clinton and then
went on to the national contest. The poster
contest is part of a project called Youth in the
Electronic Age.
Susan's entry is a three-dimensional
poster, in the form' of a shallow box lined
with tinfoil and covered with clear plastic.
Inside is a globe, cut from construction
paper, with three figures, also cut from
paper and representing people of different
races. seated on the globe.
The figure in the centre holds a telephone
with the cord, made from copper wire,
looped around the three. illustrating the
them, Telecommunications: Pulling Us
Closer Together. A satellite is shown in the
background.
Susan says her win is an unexpected
surprise because her poster is really just the
development of an idea she thought of last
year for a Grade 8 art project. She did not
expect it would win in the national contest
because it is not very detailed.
"1 think they liked it because there was
nothing else like it," she says.
Susan is excited about the trip to Geneva
and says she finds telecommunications and
art interesting. But this doesn't change her
plans to become a lawyer when she graduat-
es. She plans to go into criminal law and
become a judge.
Her interest in law is part of a family
tradition. it turns out. Her father works at
the Walkerton jail and her brother wants to
become a policeman.
ting the previous year's operating deficit of
$152,000.
In presenting the report to members of the
hospital board last week, Robert Pike,
chairman of the finance and audit commit-
tee, explained the reasons for distinguishing
between donations and interest income and
the operating surplus.
"interest income and donations really are
not for the day-to-day operations of the
hospital," he noted, They are intended to be
used for capital projects.
As a result, in preparing the year end
statement, the committee and the auditors
decided to show these amounts separate
from the operating funds,
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Susan Meyer of Holyrood has won a trip to
Geneva, Switzerland In October as one of
three winners in a nationwide telecommunl-
cations poster contest. In Geneva Susan will
attend Telecom '83, where her poster will
form part of a world wide photo and drawing
competitlin held every four years to public-
ize the role of telecommunications in the
world today. Susan is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Meyer of Holyrood and a
grade 9 student at F. E. Madill Secondary In
Wingham. (Sentinel Staff Photo)